In the complicated and sensitive legal realm of sex discrimination in the workplace, it really remains to be seen.
As minister of state for pensions between 2003 and 2005, Mr Wicks helped in changing policy to stop age discrimination in the workplace.
In an AARP survey last year, 60% of respondents age 45 to 74 said they had personally faced or observed age discrimination in the workplace.
The laws in question specifically prohibit discrimination in the workplace.
It has empowered civil society organizations to demand that governments respect women's human rights and to adopt policies to limit sex trafficking, domestic violence, child marriage and discrimination in the workplace.
We know our economy is stronger when our wives, our mothers, our daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace and free from the fear of domestic violence.
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Although their situation has improved in recent years many still suffer discrimination on the streets and in the workplace.
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Although the Sex Discrimination Act of 1975 did provide some protection for women in the workplace, it was not until the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 that employers were obliged to take seriously the issue of female staff being bullied or sexually harassed in the office.
The passing of the 1986 equal-employment-opportunity legislation removed most legal barriers to women in the workplace, but discrimination remains rampant.
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